Interesting twist: Wipeout XL/2097 for PC was a terrifically bad port, and the game speed was proportional to how fast your video card could draw the 3D scene,

Interesting twist: Wipeout XL/2097 for PC was a terrifically bad port, and the game speed was proportional to how fast your video card could draw the 3D scene, just as you describe. There was a patch at some point to fix this, but honestly just easier to load the game up in a PSX emulator these days.